“Training and enhancement are both significant requirements for strengthening and developing medium-size enterprises", stated Mr. Lufti Amin, head of the Planning Department of Wonosobo District. “I share this thought! The dual system should be implemented again in Indonesia”, added Mr. Atte Sugandi, national congressman and head of the delegation. “Yes, that’s a good idea. When we get back to Indonesia, we will regularly hold a round-table meeting to discuss the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME)”, stated Mr. Purnomo Dana Rahardjo from the Ministry of Co-Ops and SME. And during the assessment activity of the visit schedule, Mrs. Hayani Usman, also a congresswoman, said: “The FNF in Yakarta is deeply knowledgeable of the medium-sized enterprise situation, both in Indonesia and Germany; that is why the FNF in Indonesia should take part at the round table”.

Starting from day 1 in Berlin until their last day in Munich, the seven members of the delegation were deeply satisfied with the activity’s great organization and scheduling. They showed themselves enthusiastic with their interlocutors, who gathered politicians and government representatives at the federal, regional, and municipal levels, experts in medium-sized enterprise policy, and entrepreneurs, among others. Numerous questions were always raised to each interlocutor. They showed great interest, e.g. about the role of the government and parliament to strengthen and improve the medium-sized enterprise approach, the difference between subsidies and economic promotion, and the way the regional bank supports the creation and development of medium-sized enterprises.

Mr. Ahmad Rofiq of the Indonesian Commerce Chamber was deeply impressed to know that every small entrepreneur, such as the case of the cigarette retailer at the kiosk, is obliged to become registered before the suitable local authority, while there are hundreds of thousands of micro-entrepreneurs in the informal sector in Indonesia who are not registered. Mr. Mohamad Sukri of the Indonesian Coops Federation witnessed that the government exerts the least intervention possible in entrepreneurial issues, and rather avoids granting direct subsidies. At the end, Mr. Zakir Sjakur Machmud, a scientist of the University of Indonesia, showed his satisfaction; on one hand because a diversity of competent people and institutions provided him with plenty information about the medium-size enterprise in Germany; and on the other hand, because he successfully managed to build a very intense communication link to the other stakeholder delegation members of the Indonesian medium-sized enterprise. Consequently, he will be able to write a detailed, practical “policy paper”.